The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) Barney Hosts a Summit Meeting (1968) User Reviews

The last episode to feature Barney Fife.

[poppensj · 7/10 · 15 August 2013]

The last and best of the "Barney Returns" episodes. While almost none of the color episodes measure up to any of the episodes where Barney was actually a resident of Mayberry, this one comes close to recapturing the original chemistry. The plot is unlikely and improbable, but there is a payoff if you suspend disbelief and just enjoy this brief return to the way things used to be. The script was one of the few written by producer Aaron Ruben, one of the many people responsible for the quality and integrity most obvious in the earlier seasons of the show. Don Knotts won a fifth Emmy Award for this episode.

Too Much to Swallow

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 11 January 2020]

So a major summit is held at Andy's house. This would have been national news, on television every night. They trust Barney to pick the place. Well. There is one quite funny scene when a rich old man whose house is selected as a possibility for these meetings thinks that Barney is still twelve years old and call him a dropout. The rest is so far fetched that it is hard to even take a comedy seriously.

Great Don Knotts color episode

[vitoscotti · 10/10 · 5 September 2022]

I really like the set-up & cast at the Raleigh Police Department. Always very funny there. Barney is still treated bad as the coffee servant. Richard X Slattery as the tough as nails Capt Dewhurst shines in each of his TAGS scenes. The summit meeting participants were blah. But they were props for Don Knotts and a ridiculously funny script. Paul Fix was hilarious as cantankerous Mr McCabe. Love Barney's nerve walking right in the home. Barney's conversation with Mr McCabe is one of TAGS best scenes. Funny scene of Goober busting in on the summit. Don Knotts once again displays his comedic genius.